KidLensAstronomy

Star Clusters
September 08 2014

  • M15 (Film)
    Object(s): M15
Location: My-Spot Observatory
Date: Sept 7, 2002
Exposure(s): 3x 20 Min 3x 7 Min
Film: Kodak Royal Gold 400 (new)
Equipment: 10" f/10 Meade LX6 OTA with UHTC optics and Lumicon GEG @ f/7.5, Losmandy G-11
Guiding: ST-4 (A3's)
Hardware & Software: Minolta Scan Elite II film scanner, Hamrick Software's VueScan, The scanned images were color corrected, processed, and cropped using Picture Window, and then digitally stacked using Registar.
Info: M15, is a small tight Globular Cluster.
  • M15
    Object: M15
Date: August 27, 2007
Location: "My-Spot" Observatory, West Bloomfield, Michigan (4.2 ZLM, ~3.0 due to full moon)
Exposure(s): 72 x 45 Seconds at ISO800
Camera: Hap Griffin Modified Canon Rebel XT (350D)
Equipment: 10" f/10 Meade LX6 OTA with UHTC optics and Lumicon GEG @ f/7.5, Losmandy G-11
Guiding: ST-4 (A3's) on ETX90 OTA
Software & Processing: RAW image files were dark frame & background subtracted and converted to Tif files using my RawHide RAW file converter. The Tifs were then aligned and stacked using Registar 1.0.7 and then processed using Picture Window Pro. The full moon was only 27° south of M15, as a result, subframe exposure time was greatly limited due to skyglow.
  • M52
    Object(s): M52
Date: Sept 1, 2002
Location: My-Spot Observatory
Exposure: 3x 15 Min
Film: Kodak Royal Gold 400
Equipement: 10" f/10 Meade LX6 OTA (w/UHTC) w/Lumicon GEG with focal reducer at f/7.5 position
Guide Scope: ST-4 autoguider (A0 - A2's)
Hardware & Software: HP S20xi film scanner (2400dpi). The images were color corrected, processed, and cropped using Picture Window and then digitally stacked using Registar.
Info: M52. I am fairly sure that the RG400 film used for this image was the "old" (read: good) stuff. In any case, M52 is a boring little open cluster. At least the focus and the tracking a good. The mouse over shows you the full scan resolution.
  • M52
    Object(s): M52
Date: Sept 1, 2002
Location: My-Spot Observatory
Exposure: 3x 15 Min
Film: Kodak Royal Gold 400
Equipement: 10" f/10 Meade LX6 OTA (w/UHTC) w/Lumicon GEG with focal reducer at f/7.5 position
Guide Scope: ST-4 autoguider (A0 - A2's)
Hardware & Software: HP S20xi film scanner (2400dpi). The images were color corrected, processed, and cropped using Picture Window and then digitally stacked using Registar.
Info: M52. I am fairly sure that the RG400 film used for this image was the "old" (read: good) stuff. In any case, M52 is a boring little open cluster. At least the focus and the tracking a good. The mouse over shows you the full scan resolution.